Printed and put up photos!!! Finally...when I have a month and a half of living here left.
I also made a "yay for..." board to fill in
and a post-it note count down from 30-0.
Each day I have to turn that days number over
and write what was good about the day.
The 0 one has "reflect" written on the back.
So when I'm finished with finals, I wont just be
thinking about how I'm finished with finals.
I'll be able to grasp and be thankful for
the amazing Strength I know will be given
to me over the next 30 days.

Anyway. Back to english homework!

It always seems to happen this way.

It always seem to happen that when part of home leaves, when a piece of your heart is called to go:
You discover a new pianist
You dance from the soul, dictated movement from your Maker.
You happen to make the most perfect cup of coffee you've ever had.
You have lots to do but your muscles are aching to do something anyway.
Your mind is the clearest it's been in a while (you can't really remember
exactly how long because all the in-between time your mind was, well…not entirely clear.)


Beauty woke up. To a deeper degree than I've ever known it here.


(it might be called experience. The first "waiting" since really living here. It's not loss, it's just not instant gratification. It's the first directly personal ache. It's complete. It is beauty.)

I think this post might be cheating...?

Finished:
2.5 (class) Days
4 Lectures
2 Exams
1 Quiz
1 Senario

Left:
5 (class) Days
8 Lectures
4 Tests/Exams
4 Quizzes
1 Outline
1 (set of 3) Annotated Bibliography(s)
200 Pots of coffee
100 Cups of tea

Not really happy thoughts...But thats all that stands
between me
and
SPRING BREAK!!!!!
So really,
it's a colossal,
elephantine,
gigantic,
monstrously
HUGE happy thought.

(This picture represents all that will be spring break. I would explain it from my view point, but I just pray it's as beautiful from yours. Because it will be complete in loveliness.)

I'm so glad it has nothing to do with me or how I feel.
But right now, I feel it so fully.
mmmmmmmmm hmmmm mmmmm.

....today is the kind of day that:

it takes 7 minutes instead of 10 to get back to your car

the wind is blowing so hard you are basically crying, which clears your sinuses (happy dance worthy accomplishment)

you spend the whole very possibly stressful drive home thinking about sweaters and buttons and future craft days

you have happy lights and slippers to welcome you home,

was made for one of the best hot chocolate experiences ever,

you draw a fake fireplace and tape it on your wall, and it's happy. NOT half-hearted and a reality-shocker

somehow so conveniently you left your Ingrid Michaelson and Lisa Hannigan playlist open on itunes the night before, 

euphorically your english teacher was absent yesterday and you have no english homework.

you know truth and you feel it satisfy you.

Today is a day that is beautiful.

(Oh ninja sleet storm, I defeat you.)

Garnish.


Today, that is a very happy word.

Its so nice when you're standing in/or about to join a really really long line at the store, then a new cashier opens up and you are first! Even though patience is given when asked for, it's really nice.
That happened today, and I feel like it happens a lot...